Biggest Changes Milestones Professional 2017:

Undo… Anything!

A new Multiple Undo feature has been added to Milestones. Now all actions can be undone. You can set the number of actions that can be undone from 1 to 100 (the default is 20). This is done using the Tools | Program Options | Edit screen:

Design your own Symbology with any Project date fields!

See how you can totally customize your symbology with Milestones Professional 2017:

Easily grab multiple tasks from MS Project

In past versions, one Microsoft Project task could be linked via the “Link to Active MS Project task” feature. Now, groups of tasks can be selected in Microsoft Project. Then, the link feature makes it possible to link all selected tasks at once. One option is add all dates from selected tasks to a single row on the Milestones chart. The other option is to have Milestones add new rows for each Project task:

Refresh your Tasks from Excel

You can now assign a UniqueID to your tasks when you import from Excel, which allows you to refresh the dates if they have changed in Excel. This also means you can move your symbols and bars around your Milestones schedule.

Attach a Date Heading to a Task Row

It is now possible to attach any single type of date heading to a row. Now, when you right-click on the menu to attach a date heading to a row, a dialog appears that lets you remove the heading, attach a copy of the schedule headings, or a single independent heading of any type:

Even more improvements added in 2017!

Check out our “What’s New in Milestones Professional 2017” (PDF) to see even more additions and improvements.

Biggest Changes Milestones Professional 2015:

Use Logarithmic Date Headings to Expand a Time Range

You can make certain months or years appear larger than other months or years, with our new Logarithmic Date Heading settings:

Logarithmic Date Headings

Each Task row now has 11 vertical levels

In previous versions, you were limited to 3 vertical levels per task row. Version 2015 allows for 11 different vertical levels on each row.

11 different vertical levels

Link multiple MS Project files to the same Milestones schedule

We added a nickname feature, which allows you to link multiple MS Project files to your schedule. Now, when you refresh, you can grab the new dates from multiple MS Project files at once.

Link to Multiple MS Project files with Nicknames

Populate your column from MS Project

When you insert a field from MS Project into your Milestones Schedule, you have the option to populate the column immediately.

Populate a column from MS Project

Add your Symbology from MS Project Tasks

When you link a task row to an MS Project task, you can also bring the symbology over to your Milestones schedule automatically.

Link to Active MS Project task

Even more improvements added in 2015!

Check out our “What’s New in Milestones Professional 2015” to see even more additions and improvements.

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